 rradina
join:2000-08-08
Chesterfield, MO
 ·Charter Pipeline
 ·Vonage
| Great that it's mobile but... It's great that WiMax is mobile but what about using it to provide competition for fixed HSI? I'd love to dump cable HSI and use 3G/HSPA for my home but I cannot justify the expense vs. cable. And the performance isn't what it probably needs to be for rock solid VOIP. | |
|  | Alphy
join:2001-12-31
Troy, MI
·Comcast
| Re: Great that it's mobile but... You know, I actually kind of like Wimax. Its current abilities and costs of deployment are rather prohibitive, but imagine if speeds were increased and costs were lowered, what someone like Google could do with this? Under cutting all of our ISP's? Drastically reducing our cell phone bills with VoIP handsets (I dream of a Wimax handset with Google, designed by Apple)? I believe this to be the future, or at least the one I hope to see. | |
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Michieru
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Premium
join:2005-01-28
Miami, FL
 ·Speakeasy
| Sigh He is simply stating thing's that have been stated here many times. I will shut up on the matter in regards to the HSPA and EVDO/WiMAX family until we actually start seeing the services and real world results that show these technologies maxing themselves out to determine which is best and put a end to this stupid debate over which is better or not.
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The only limits we have are the one's we set ourselves. | |
| | rradina
join:2000-08-08
Chesterfield, MO
·Charter Pipeline
·Vonage
| Re: Sigh I don't care which one is better. I wish a serious wireless competitor for fixed HSI (cable/DSL/T1) would emerge. If it has the side benefit of also supporting mobility, great but I would think that mobility has more technical challenges that add to the cost.
If major metro areas had multiple wireless providers that really scaled in terms of speed and customer count, we would finally have competition for the last mile. And with respect to wireless, what works in metro areas easily works in rural areas leading to the FCC Holy Grail of ~100% coverage.
I agree that mobile WiMax is alluring but it seems logical to take a baby step, generate revenue and then take another step. | |
| | | jpboss
join:2003-09-13
Conyers, GA
| Utilizing WiMax for "Last-Mile" HSI Why wouldn't WiMax be a very lucrative addition to phone company LEC's to us to pump HSI to those rural customers they cannot reach with DSL without major infrastructure $$$'s spent upgrading. Whereas WiMax could be pumped to these houses to get those customers up and running and paying for HSI services? I can't believe how slow WiMax deployments have been. | |
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Wimax 'Niche,' 3G King
